Sentence examples for when we retreated from inspiring English sources
When we retreated, leaving a nest camera to keep watch, the female returned.
The best moments, however, came when we retreated to the Korean monastery.
The Swivel came in handy on a sweltering afternoon last week, when we retreated to my son's air-conditioned bedroom, connected my iPhone to the Cinemin Swivel, and voilà!
(Question: who buys those really huge tins of Ortiz tuna, and what the hell do they do with them?) But when we retreated inside it on our first lunchtime, our cheeks striped flamingo pink and our boots like freighters on our feet, I realised in as long as it took me to say the sacred words "coronation chicken" that there was more to it than panettone.
Our inner sanctum developed in childhood, when we retreated into our inner world, where we created our version of reality.
When we retreated to observe from a distance, we saw the cars visibly slowing down to crawl the kerbs.
When we retreat from human rights toward citizens' privileges – that's the way to Guantánamo Bay.
Plain speech matters because when we speak clearly we are more likely to speak truth than when we retreat into slogan and euphemism; avoiding euphemism takes courage because it almost always points plainly to responsibility.
The leading Labour barrister Lady Kennedy also made clear that the home secretary will face strong criticism from Labour peers if he pushes ahead with a counter-terror package that abolishes jury trials in terrorist cases, warning: "The rule of law does matter and we are sending out incredible messages around the world when we retreat from those principles".
Deller tries to "do things that aren't exploitative even if the idea itself seems to be ridiculous or absurd, like the recreation of the battle in the miners' strike," he explains when we retreat from the bat cave to the porch of his log cabin.
When we retreat from the world, if only for a short while, when we disengage from the spinning flywheel of the world, we can hear the still, small voices that speak to us of what is beautiful, necessary, and true.
